European Companies Prepare to Roll Out RFID-Enabled Wheels
A solution developed by pureSpekt and noFilis will enable users of trolleys and other rolling carts to track items' locations via passive EPC UHF tags and readers.- Navizon's Cloud-based RTLS Service Tracks Wi-Fi Tags, Devices
- Johns Hopkins' New Facility Tracks Food, Assets, Staff
- Law Firm Uses RFID to Track Every Page of Confidential Documents
- Killure Bridge Nursing Home Tracks Staff, High-Risk Residents
- RFID Journal Announces Winners of Its Sixth Annual Awards
- Vizinex Releases Four New Tags for Specialized Applications
- USF Polytechnic Researchers Helped Cephalon Improve Item-Level RFID Performance
- Washington State Clinic Doubles Visits With RTLS
- Finalists Unveiled for Sixth Annual RFID Journal Awards
Health Care case studies
- Finnish Hospital Deploys RFID in Three Phases
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Is "RFID-Ready"
- RFID Makes Radiation Therapy Safer
- French Biobank Secures Specimens
How Synthes Uses RFID to Manage Distribution Center Processes
Improving Infusion Pump Usage and Utilization With RTLS
RFID Journal LIVE! 2012 Report, Part 2
At RFID Journal's 10th-anniversary conference and exhibition, attendees heard real-world case studies explaining how to utilize radio frequency identification to improve their business. View the presentations from the RFID Journal Awards finalists and the event's main conference-track and solutions-provider sessions.-
Health-Care Market Secrets
Published January 2012SATO America offers tips for how to break into the expanding health-care market, and discusses several products reflecting the range of automated data-collection and RFID applications in that sector. (4 pages)
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Track-and-Trace Solutions for the Health-care and Pharmaceutical Industries
Published December 2011Counterfeit medicine is a growing problem worldwide. Consumer and patient safety is crucially important within the health-care and pharmaceutical industries, as is the eroding bottom lines of many drug companies due to the infiltration of bogus medications into the supply chain. SATO America explains why track-and-trace solutions, including bar-coding and RFID technologies, should be implemented in order to ensure the integrity of pharmaceuticals moving from manufacturer to consumer, as well as improve productivity and profitability. (3 pages)
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RTLS-based Ubiquitous Health-Care Management System Design and Implementation
Published August 2011The U.S. health-care system, one of the most complex systems worldwide, has suffered from ineffective logistics management, patient safety concerns and escalating costs. Real-time location systems (RTLS) based on ubiquitous computing are a new application that will increase the visibility and operational efficiency of clinical and administrative workflow in the health-care setting. In this paper, Xiaoyu Ma, Kai Yang and Kimberly Brayley propose a hybrid framework to implement RTLS technology in hospitals, according to the theory of information system design theory, lean management and task-technology fit. (25 pages)
